Novocaine Brain And The Accidental Kardashian Vibe | Episode 483

Novocaine Brain And The Accidental Kardashian Vibe | Episode 483

A cracked filling doesn’t sound like a big story until you’ve lived through the years that lead up to it. I’m Justin, and I’m talking candidly about what happens when mental health and major depression knock out your routines, including brushing, dental cleanings, and basic maintenance. When I finally got back into the dentist chair after that “mental health valley,” the bill wasn’t just money, it was reality: fillings, crowns, and the slow work of rebuilding what I’d let slide.

I also walk you through what today’s appointment feels like in real time: the numbing agent, the vibration of the drill, the hardest part of keeping your mouth open, and the not-so-fun hours waiting for the numbness to wear off. If you deal with sensory sensitivity, including experiences that can show up on the autism spectrum, we talk about why hot and cold sensitivity and everyday stimuli can hit harder than people realize.

Then we zoom out to the rest of life, because it all stacks together: mental health swings, tax-day stress, the comfort of coming home to my tiny pup Lucy, and how much energy I burn worrying before I do the thing. I share why podcast analytics and rising downloads feel like quiet validation, plus a few thoughts on haircuts, aging, back pain mornings, and learning to keep a secret when exciting stuff is brewing.

If any of this sounds like your life, hit subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find these honest conversations about mental health, self-care, and getting through the next hard task.

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Chapter Markers

• 0:01 Welcome And Big Mission
• 1:27 Dental Neglect After Mental Crisis
• 4:04 Today’s Refilled Filling Experience
• 9:32 Sensory Sensitivity And Autism Notes
• 12:52 Mental Health Swings And Podcast Growth
• 13:50 Hair Trim Regrets And Old Style Memories
• 16:05 Keeping Secrets And Faith
• 21:14 Taxes And Puppy Lucy Support
• 25:50 Dread Before Appointments And Self Care
• 28:48 Aging Body And Morning Back Pain
• 32:36 Fewer Surprises And Practical Gifts
• 34:36 Closing Thanks And Share Request

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Transcript

Welcome And Big Mission

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 0:01

Hi everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices, brought to you by Voices for Voices Audio. Thank you for joining us on this episode of the show. Uh, thank you for watching and listening. Whether you're here in the United States or abroad across our great uh planet Earth, thank you for joining us. Give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, and that would be extra helpful to us towards reaching our goal of reaching and helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond. Also, if you can follow us on our social media channels, those would also be very helpful. You can find voices for voices everywhere. Thank you for all past guests, all guests that we will have in the future as well. We have uh a jam-packed uh period of time, I'll call it, uh, where it's uh it's gonna be exciting. Uh it already is. Uh and that's about all I can say about that. Uh let's jump right in, okay.

Dental Neglect After Mental Crisis

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 1:27

So when I first came out of, I guess, my mental health crisis 2017, uh, there was a period of time where, well, let me back up. I didn't, there's a period of time prior to 2017 where I didn't go I didn't go to uh a dentist uh to you know get my teeth cleaned and just general maintenance and for that matter brushing my teeth. I I had still battled major depression, but I had a I think a lot a lot worse, a little worse. I don't I don't know. Uh all I know is once I um you know got out of the uh the mental health valley that I was in, there's a period of time when I decided to go and seek dental treatment, and I didn't realize what was going to be the case. Well, uh there's at least 22 fillings of my teeth, uh, one or two crowns, uh, and that was just to get back to, I guess, back to I guess uh like level. I I don't know what type of word to use, but uh get back to level, uh meaning not gray, not not gray, we were we we had all the fillings taken care of. I still had crooked tea at the bottom. Right now, I don't uh that that was many years after uh because I I ended up getting braces for the third time in my lifetime. And I've spoken about this on other shows, but what I want to really just get into is today I went and had a filling refilled, I guess.

Today’s Refilled Filling Experience

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 4:04

I guess it's like I'm refilling my gas tank or or uh refilling the charge on on my phone. Uh so I had cracked one and so it needed fixed. And so today I did I did, I got it, I got it fixed. It's just one. Thank goodness, so far. And what what they did at least with my with with this filling, yeah, they use some kind of numbing agent, Novocaine, or there maybe there's another cooler name that that's out there. Uh, so when they're on the drilling and and all that, that it doesn't hurt, and it's not as noticeable. Can feel the vibration of the tool, uh, but uh yeah. So went and got the the one filling that I needed refilled uh today, earlier today. And I'm glad I did it. I'm glad it's done. It's not it's not fun. I guess I had so many, so many cavities and and and uh and crowns that I that today went so fast because I was expecting some long drawn-out process. Uh the hardest part was keeping my my mouth open because the feeling is way in the way in the back. So that that was that was kind of my my morning and really here into the afternoon until the numbness is now starting to wear off. So I know there's gonna be some soreness and some um sensitivity to you know hot and cool foods for for a while. I don't know when it was, I don't know which feeling it was, or if it was a crown. I I just remember there was one specific time when I had some dental work done where it took a couple months, it felt like for you know, the sensitivity to hot and cold. I I still have a little bit of sensitivity to hot and cold, anyways. Uh like I'm I'm one of those people where I wait for my food to cool down. Uh not so it's ice cold or anything. Uh but some people, you know, when the food's done, it comes out, they'll just start digging right in. And I guess it depends on what what we're eating and and how hot it comes out. But I already have that sensitivity, and I don't I don't need a filling or a crown to to tell me that. Um I do I just have that, and that's that's part of the you know the uh where I'm at on the the autism spectrum of you know different changes in temperature, lights, shining, uh sounds real loud, real unloud. Uh say real did I say real unloud? I think I just did. Yeah. I think I'm still feeling a little bit of the uh a little bit of the the after effects of having the uh having the Novicane uh wearing off uh on on me. So uh but anyways, uh I got it done. And so that that was something that I wasn't looking forward to, but it's done. It's it's done. So always glad to have dental work finished, not the dreaded, oh my gosh, it's coming up tomorrow or next week or next month or uh in six months. Uh I uh like probably a lot of you out there, uh I don't know a whole lot of people that enjoy uh I mean if I'm just again regular checkout, usually with no cavities, no crowns needed, it's usually not that bad. Uh but yeah, so I'm I'm glad that that that that's done.

Sensory Sensitivity And Autism Notes

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 9:32

So it's been a couple days uh since we have uh had an episode out, and mental health-wise, uh it's it's been a little bit of a little bit of everything. You know, some ups, some downs, some side to side. And just glad to be back with everyone. Thanks again for watching and listening. It's so cool to watch the numbers of downloads and views just go up. And we had three record months in the last six months, the last five months, and this month we're halfway through as as we're filming this, uh, we're halfway through the month, and we are I think twelve twelve downloads on the audio, and then we tie that third record, so we maybe go on uh we may be replacing the third with another third. Uh so it's exciting this to see that, and you know, when we when we talk about our shows and talk about our guests and always different topics, we're always looking for some kind of validation, and it and we know we don't hear all the feedback, we see some of it, not a lot of it, because right, it takes energy to send feedback. But when we give feedback, it's it's it's good, and so when we look at the numbers that we do get, there's a lot of numbers. I would say, if I were to guess, I would guess well over 50% of our analytics that show us all the downloads, all the views, we don't see whether it's a government, intelligence agency, military, uh privacy settings, uh private servers, there's so much it's private now, and that's okay. So when we do see the numbers in the analytics go up it up towards the sky, that to me, and I've I've said this a lot, and I'm

Mental Health Swings And Podcast Growth

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 12:52

gonna say it again, because it's so true. Any of you that have have shows out there, podcasts, uh whatever you name them when we see those numbers go up, it's like, oh, okay, we're reaching a lot of people. And so if we're reaching a lot of people with what we can see, then that means that the number of downloads and views can only be higher. And so that that's very exciting for us to to know that. Uh I also got, I guess, my hair trimmed since the last time, so I kind of was going for the longer look, and it's longer, I guess.

Hair Trim Regrets And Old Style Memories

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 13:50

Uh trying to get rid of this gray, but uh I don't think it's gonna happen unless I dye my my hair, then I have sensitivities to a lot of things, and depending on uh what kind of coloring product product that I have, uh we'll we'll see. We'll see when I do it when I get brave enough to do it. Uh you know, growing up, it was the frosted tips is what was you know going on. So I I gotta find I gotta find a picture from uh way back when and to show you like it was like legit frosted tips. I had probably three kinds of different gel. And then you couldn't just I I couldn't just stop with the gel. There was also it was like a I don't call it like a shiner, but it made it made my hair shiny, like I guess so throughout the day it would look like I just took a shower. Uh yeah, so we're getting this, you know, some different different topics. Uh but yeah, so haircut, I got the dental work done. Um a lot of exciting stuff with voices that uh not able to share at this point, and it kind of goes with that whole and I'm a bad person at keeping secrets, so the fact that I'm not sharing this uh is extremely meaningful as it's hard.

Keeping Secrets And Faith

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 16:06

I don't know. I you know when if it's somebody's birthday in our family or a special time, I have a hard time not telling them before. Like, I know your birthday's in a week, or usually it's I know your birthday's in a day, or something like that. And I don't want to tell you, but I can't help it because it's in this bag I'm holding, and and let's let's uh I'll just share it right now. So the fact that I'm not sharing is uh I think a uh I I I think it's I think it's meaningful. Well, I don't think I know it's meaningful because there's a yeah, when you have a lot of a lot of moving parts, a lot of things going on it's easy to slip up. But then you look at what sharing information you know at at this point would do. Doesn't really wouldn't really it wouldn't be a surprise, right? Wouldn't be a surprise if if I just uh got on the show and just started sharing everything that that's going on So I guess I'm advancing and learning continuous learning I guess is the the way the way to say it uh But very excited And to the people that say, well you don't look excited, uh I am I'm very excited very excited It's uh It's amazing It's amazing what God has put put together for all of us All of us We don't know we don't know what the world holds for us We don't know what God's plans are for us kind of going back to the I I don't I don't do well with secrets uh God holds the you know for if you're a believer you don't have to be but if you are God holds the the eternal eternal s secrets I don't know maybe maybe some of the things maybe I'll unexpectedly pass Uh and so maybe that's why he's like okay Justin you may you probably shouldn't share Not only that but there's actually it would be a minute for uh which would mean it would it would be a while before I uh or would take a minute I take some time to actually go go through go through a lot of these uh I don't know I just uh I just got back it's it's tax day here in the United States, so uh don't don't like having to uh have our puppy Lucy in her kennel and so of course when I got back she was all over she's just hopping and hopping and I'm like I'm sorry I I didn't want to do that I I I can't I can't take in what were the taxes uh where we gotta handle that at maybe maybe I could uh I I I was in such a hurry I didn't I didn't look to see if there were any signs.

Taxes And Puppy Lucy Support

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 21:14

Um and she's not a I I feel like she's a support animal for me. Uh but she's like this she's like very tiny. And and so I not not the support animal, or maybe a support animal has to be a certain type of dog. I don't I don't know. Uh but it's uh it's always nice when we're able to travel and go places so she can hang out hang out on the ride, and then when we get to where we're going. Uh it's uh it's a lot fun. Uh again, haven't haven't been a uh pet owner. It's it's uh it's a learning process, that's for sure. That's for sure. But yeah, I mean the mental health, I mean is all over the place. Like taxes, get my hair done, hair trimmed. I think that took off a little bit too much, but I I utilize that as a uh like a form of self-care. Uh and so I was like, I think I'm just gonna the idea was just to get it trimmed like around ears a little bit, and then the back and the sides. Uh and then just take just the tiniest amount uh you know to get those ends freshened up. And I got freshened up, alright. So uh once it's once it's trimmed, I mean it's it's it's trimmed. I guess it'd be pretty obvious if I had hair extensions, so we're not gonna we're not gonna do that. Uh and then yeah, the dental works just uh I'll say yeah, unnecessary evil. I guess either if you're able to to do it, to get it done, or not. So I was able to just get some basic things done. I kind of feel like I'm doing a I'm doing an episode of the Kardashians where yeah, I'm not walking anywhere or going anywhere, but I'm just sharing like what I'm what I've done. And and I I so I kind of feel like a Kardashian for for a little bit. So maybe we'll we'll get those uh those billion followers, those three billion followers, likes. It could be. We never know. And I guess that's the the the main thing to take out of this I guess word so I guess you would say. I don't think it's a word south in the sense of what people we're we're talking about a certain political figure. Uh I just talked about a bunch of different topics and I feel like that's what the Kardashians do. They're just like, oh, I want to get my nails done. Okay, well, I want to get my hair done. Oh, I want to get my I want to get my teeth whiten, but I did I I just brushed them with whitening toothpaste and I went and got my cavity filled.

Dread Before Appointments And Self Care

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 25:50

But all that takes a takes a toll, and I think sometimes, at least mentally for me, I spend a lot of mental capacity before I even do something. So I have like, you know, that being nervous and you know, anxious and stress before I even do something, before I even go go to the dentist. You heard me say that I I didn't feel like it was that bad, all considering all the dental work I've had done over the years. And so I'm like, I don't want to go, I don't want to go, I don't want to go, and then I go, and then I'm like, all right, that's it. And then I was just waiting for the side of my face to stop being numb. I guess I need to think about that when I get my hair trimmed. Of oh my gosh, oh my god, they're gonna I know they're gonna take off too much, and I don't want them to, and I don't know, and they did. Or it might be they trim so little, and and then I'm like, uh, can you just take a little bit more off? And then they yeah, the barbers beauticians, uh get my hair cut. Might not be after that first one, then like it might be like, all right, that's this looks good, but couldn't just do just a little bit, a little bit more, and they could say, oh, sure, yeah, just no, yeah, just a little bit more, and then it's that second round where they interpret that as like, oh, okay, well, yeah, I'll just take a little bit more, and then instead of it being like here or so. Let me go here. Like here, we've gone we've gone up a lot, a lot more than I expected. What are you gonna do? Again, I mean, I guess I could wear uh extensions? No, I'm not gonna do that. Or I'm just gonna wait till it grows back, and then I'm gonna figure out when I'm gonna go after this gray with with my hair dye and 44

Aging Body And Morning Back Pain

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 28:48

getting old. Telling you the back really oh, the the lower back in the morning really, really gets me, let me tell you. It's like I turn on one side, not turn on the other, and then I lay on my back, and and then when it's you know time to actually not time to wake up where I'm trying to sleep in a few extra minutes, and my alarm clock's not going off, not ringing yet. Then my back's like, Justin, wake up. This is your back calling. This is this is your back wake up call, and then I just get up most times after that because it just gets more and more sore, so then I just roll literally roll out of bed and try to get up without having Lucy hop on me when I'm getting up. But somehow she always gets she's making me up like uh yeah, she's looking me in and it's like she's playing and she wants her belly rubbed, and it's uh it's fun, except for the fact when I'm sleeping, I'm like, I want a couple more minutes of sleep. Why is my back doing this to me? And then here the the here she's got like a little bell, she has a little bell, and it's like a little jingle bell, and so it uh it like jingles, and so we know where she's at, which is actually a good thing, because it's easier for us to know, like, oh uh Lucy is over in maybe one of the other rooms, or she's right above me right now, or she's right below me right now, or she's getting something getting something to eat in her in her food bowl, or she's getting a drink of water and in her her water bowl. Um, and so that's helpful to have an idea instead of being surprised, because I'm not a big fan of surprises, and I guess because I tell all the surprises most of the time. Uh others, uh even if they like surprises, usually I'm telling them the surprise before I'm supposed to. So I guess that's uh that's a flaw for for me. Uh but uh uh it's all it's all in good fun and uh it's uh it's uh it's fun, I guess. I don't know what it's like on the other end of man, Justin always tells me the surprise. Uh I mean, I guess the older I get, the less

Fewer Surprises And Practical Gifts

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 32:36

surprises there there are usually. If there's something usually there's something that we need, we usually get when we need it, which might not always be around a birthday or another holiday. And and so a lot of times I'll just ask for practical things because that's what I I spend more of my time with that than hobby type things that when I was younger or clothing or all kinds of things that I uh yeah that I would I would ask for. Now it's something practical, like oh my goodness, I don't know, something that would help make the yard work go quicker, uh you know, a sp a spreader, which we have, you know, to for fertilizer and and and that um people were like, oh, like you're asking for that. It's like well that it's something that's practical, something we're gonna need. I I could ask for something that's just gonna sit around, which is what I used to do. I haven't a hundred percent not done that in my late later years here, but I've done it a lot less. Let me put it that way. I think that's the best way to put it.

Closing Thanks And Share Request

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes 34:36

So thank you for joining me for this episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. Now brought to you by Voices for Voices Audio. We're so happy you're with us. Give us the big thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, repost. Uh, maybe reach out to 25 or 50 of your contacts and your telephone and let them know about the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. We love you. We're thinking about you. Thank you for the love and support. And it's been Justin as your host on this particular episode of the show. So we'll see you on the next episode. Take care, everybody.